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A federal judge agreed with Republicans that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to work legally in the U.S. So will the GOP now pass a clean bill funding the Department of Homeland Security?

When R.J. Reynolds Tobacco said Jan. 7 that it would donate nearly 1.8 million square feet and 120 acres of its Whitaker Park campus in Winston-Salem for economic development, it was clearly a big deal. But it could be a boon well beyond the buildings and land.

The state of North Carolina has the debt capacity to take on large projects in the next five to 10 years. That’s the take of a new Debt Affordability Study spearheaded by North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell.

When people talk about Social Security, they usually mean the federal government’s old-age retirement program. But another program, Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, has been in the news lately.

​Southern states – including North Carolina – have the lowest five-year survival rate among those diagnosed with HIV or AIDS in 2003-2004, according to new research conducted by Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.